Sat.Feb 21, 2015 - Fri.Feb 27, 2015

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Confessions of a Headhunter

The Whiteboard

'I’ve been accused of many weird and wonderful things in my decade as a recruiter but last week took the biscuit. Shock, horror and scandal…I was accused of being a headhunter “ well-known for poaching staff from other agencies… ” Well blow me down. Some context is probably needed: I was speaking about the emerging “Flex Economy” and Non-Traditional Talent in Wellington last week, at a very pleasant event hosted by the guys at Flexitime and The Detail.

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Top 10 UK Job Boards in 2015 (Infographic)

Social Talent

'We like to keep on top of what’s happening out there in the funny old world, we call “Recruitment Land”, as we know you guys do too. And just one of ways we like to do this, is to keep up-to-date with the visitor statistics of various job boards around the globe. So, today we’re checking out who’s hot and who’s not in our list of the Top 10 UK Job Boards in 2015 and comparing what’s changed since 2014.

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Everything You Need to Know About Glassdoor Job Postings

Glassdoor for Employers

'Most people know Glassdoor as the place where job seekers go to research companies. But did you know the second most popular reason people visit Glassdoor is to browse job listings? Yep. Over 20 million unique job seekers visit Glassdoor each month in search of new career opportunities, often their “dream jobs.”. For employers, Glassdoor offers several recruiting solutions to advertise job openings to this highly qualified, enthusiastic and diverse candidate pool.

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How to Bring Out the Best in Your Employees

Spark Hire

'As a manager, you set the tone within your office, whether you realize it or not. Your behavior, your words, and your guidance have a major impact on the productivity and morale within the business. In order to encourage your employees to bring their best to work each day, keep these points in mind: Value your employees’ big picture goals. While you want to be sure that each team member is doing their job to the fullest every day, realize that these people are human too.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Target Your Ideal Candidates With Candidate ATM

Web Based Recruitment

'Video Marketing & Social Media Advertising For Recruiters. Home. Candidate Attraction. Recruitment Videos. Mobile Recruitment. Training Courses. Recruitment Events. About Us. Speaking. Contact Us. Blog. Target Your Ideal Candidates With Candidate ATM. February 25, 2015 By Mike Taylor Leave a Comment We are pleased to announce that we have today officially launched our new candidate attraction service Candidate ATM.

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Glassdoor’s Summit is on the Way!

Glassdoor for Employers

'Last year’s inaugural Employer Branding Summit was explosive. Our intimate conference evolved into a worldwide classroom discussion focused on sharing pioneering employer branding strategies. We counted 100 in-person attendees and 11 speakers, but the results were far beyond those modest numbers. Summit connected 5,500 audience members in 64 countries.

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Turns Out #Recruiting Actually IS a Rocket Science

SmartRecruiters

'So, I have changed my mind. A monkey can’t recruit. Most people can’t recruit. It is an art. It is becoming more of an art each year. If recruiting were easy, then everyone would be doing it. It is a sales job. One of the hardest sales jobs in the world. It certainly takes someone with thick skin and you have to be pretty darn smart to balance all of the intangibles in recruiting.

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How to Make More Effective Recruiting Calls

Spark Hire

'As a recruiter, being good on the phone is an essential part of career success. The ability to have an engaging and productive phone conversation is a skill recruiters must hone throughout the course of their careers. If you’re looking to improve your abilities in this area, consider using some of these strategies: Think about what’s motivating the person on the other end of the phone: When you can speak to a candidate’s emotional side, you’re more likely to keep them interested during the call

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What Engagement Drivers Motivate Employees? (Infographic)

Social Talent

'[Forward by Douglas Brown of Engaged2Perform ]. Employee engagement can be difficult to define or describe, and different people have different views and opinions of it. If we had to use one word to define employee engagement it would be “ caring ”! Caring about performance and results, about company goals and objectives, about clients, about colleagues and caring about the success of the business.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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5 CEO Responses on Glassdoor Worth Reading

Glassdoor for Employers

'CEOs: have you thought about responding to your company’s Glassdoor reviews? Taking the time to respond to your employees’ feedback is worth it. Top 3 reasons. Appreciation. It’s important to take time to thank your employees. Reputation. You are the kind of leader that values feedback and implements change, and this is a great way to prove it. Employee Retention.

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Bill Rates and Negative Attrition in Light Industrial Staffing

Allegis Global Solutions

'Recently a client came to the Market Analytics team at Allegis Global Solutions to answer this question - what is causing an upswing in negative attrition among warehouse workers?

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3 key benefits of working with staffing firms to communicate today

CareerBuilder

'Tony Beshara knows a thing or two about the staffing profession, having been a manager in the staffing industry 41 years and an owner for the past 26. He has a message for staffing firm owners and employees: You don’t put enough weight on the value you bring to your clients. Beshara says he can “attest to the fact that we often lose sight of how valuable our service is to the companies we do business with.

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What You Need To Know About #Social #Recruiting

SmartRecruiters

'Recruiters and human resources professionals are increasingly using social media to reach out to candidates, especially on LinkedIn and Twitter. However, with millions of people on social media, one team of recruiters can hardly make a dent when it comes to searching and vetting those potential candidates. Imagine what it’d be like to have access to the mass of highly skilled people on social media for free.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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Behind the Scenes at the Best Places to Work Roadshow

Glassdoor for Employers

'The Glassdoor Best Places to Work Roadshow kicked off last week in San Francisco to a packed house of employers looking for answers to the question: How do I make my company a better place to work? Glassdoor VP of Marketing Steve Burton reviewed the common traits of prior winners on Glassdoor’s coveted Best Places to Work list. Internally at Glassdoor, we call our Best Places to Work list the Employees’ Choice Awards because employees decide if their company is worth the honor or not.

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3 Situations that Call for a Split Placement

NPA Worldwide

'NPAworldwide is a split placement network. We’ve been helping our members make splits for more than 50 years, so we pretty much think splits should always be considered. If you haven’t made up your mind yet about splits, or aren’t sure how they could benefit your business, here are 3 situations where a split placement is a great option.

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54% of mature workers plan to work after retirement

CareerBuilder

'Workers close to retirement often dream of spending quality time with family, taking those long-awaited vacations or picking up a new hobby. But for many, retirement just means leaving their current job for a new one. According to CareerBuilder’s annual retirement survey, 53 percent of workers (age 60-plus) are currently delaying retirement, and more than half say they plan to work after retiring from their current career.

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The Next Frontier in Talent Acquisition is Marketing

Symphony Talent

'This post was originally posted on ERE. You can see the post and the comments to the original post on the site here. It’s increasingly obvious that in the next 2-5 years the top employers of choice will be the organizations that consistently communicate an authentic employer brand story and value proposition that wins the. Continue Reading → The post The Next Frontier in Talent Acquisition is Marketing appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Managing Your Recruitment Agency Spend in 2024

Feeling overwhelmed by a juggling act of internal recruiting, agency relationships, and direct hire spend? You’re not alone. In today’s competitive talent landscape, building a dream team requires strategic orchestration. Recruiting agencies and search firms provide invaluable services, but managing them effectively alongside your internal team can pose unique challenges.

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Why The #Recruiting Industry Loves Big #Data

SmartRecruiters

'A great shift is happening within the recruiting industry as Big Data, and the need for clean data has taken center stage. Although recruiting firms have always touted their databases as being a differentiating factor, all recruiters know the importance of a current live search. The databases may be one stop, among a checklist of places we would search, but it was never our only spot.

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Six steps to go from vendor to strategic partner

Allegis Global Solutions

'How can a talent solutions provider stand out from the crowd?

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When does the job interview actually start?

CareerBuilder

'It’s not uncommon for employers to enlist the help of the receptionist and ask how a job candidate behaved while waiting for the interview, but sometimes that information presents itself even earlier. Like, say during the morning commute. Such was the case for Matt Buckland, the head of talent and recruiting at Forward Partners in London last week when a fellow commuter who bumped into and hurled an expletive at him turned out to be one of his afternoon interviewees.

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5 Best Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 2.21.15 to 2.27.15

Symphony Talent

'Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing and other recruitment trends. This week we’ll be covering rising job opportunities, A/B testing of job descriptions, passive aggressive recruiters, employment branding and successful conferences. Before we begin, I’d also like to share news and.

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Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

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WARNING: Your Current #Hiring Process is Outdated

SmartRecruiters

'In my last Inc column , I predicted that 2015 would be an exciting year for the U.S. job market and offered five resolutions for better hiring in the new year. Focusing on these ways to improve your hiring is a great start. But it’s also important to look at your overall hiring process and refine how you recruit and hire your workforce. What’s So Wrong With How You Hire?

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Maximize Your Split Placement Membership

NPA Worldwide

'As the Director of Membership for a split placement network, I am often surprised when months pass by from an inactive member, and then they state they are not getting a good return on investment. This recently caused me to think of our network as a gym, with the membership goals and results really lining up with the work that goes into either. Here are five ways to maximize any type of membership, whether it be a gym, professional association, or split placement network.

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Twitter Video Chat Recap: How and Why to Invest in Your Talent

CareerBuilder

'You focus a LOT of your effort on hiring and onboarding, but what about investing in your talent to empower them to contribute to the best of their ability? Don’t ever think of employee investment as an afterthought: Reskilling current employees should be front and center for every talent advisor, and there are ways to make it a priority even when resources are scarce.

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Hire for your company's culture

Allegis Global Solutions

'The importance of cultural fit should never be underestimated in the hiring process.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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Recruiting Would Be Easy if it Weren’t For Hiring Managers and Candidates

SmartRecruiters

'There’s a joke in the software industry that “building software would be easy if it weren’t for end users.”. It’s more sad than funny, really, especially if you’re a recruiter that happens to use software to coordinate a hiring process involving other people. You know – like candidates, and the managers that want to hire them. Those guys. Turns out that any software development team can gather requirements and whiteboard an idea for a product.

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Using Technology to Engage Your Hiring Managers

iCIMS

Did you know that 80% of recruiters think they have a “high” to “very high” understanding of the jobs for which they recruit, but only 61% of hiring managers say that recruiters have, at best, a “low” to “moderate understanding” of the jobs for w

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Employee Value Proposition: Back in Vogue

Brandon Hall

'The employee value proposition is back–here’s why. Earlier this week, our analyst team had a lively discussion on the all-encompassing, incredibly complex nature of employee value proposition (EVP). While the concept of EVP has been around for a while, we’re getting renewed interest in research that redefines employee value proposition in a modern working world.